Pull-over garment



Aug. 12 G. K. PULL OVER GARMENT Filed Dec. 1, 1943 GEOR a: A. MA /5.

INVENTOR. BY M ATTORNEY.

Patented Aug. 12, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PULL-OVER GARMENT George K. Manus, Los Angeles, Calif.

Application-December 1, 1943, Serial No. 512,671

1 Claim. 1

My invention relates to garments of the sports type and more particularly to garments designed to be put on by the wearer pulling them over his head and 50 known as Pull over. Such garments are generally of the loose knit fabric type and make little or no attempt to hang or drape particularly well, but my invention is designed to provide a garment which, in contrast to such loose knit fabric type, may be made from any material and are designed to drape or mould to the wearers torso as well as shirt or coats of the usual kind having a neck opening which may be closed by buttons or zippers, but I achieve this eifect without fastening means of any kind.

An object of my invention is to provide a pullover garment designed to "drape or fit well on the torso of the wearer.

Another object of my invention is to provide a pull over garment which is easy to launder and iron by reducing extra pieces or layers of cloth to a minimum.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a pull over garment having a collar in one piece with the shoulder and chest and front portions of the garment.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a pull over garment made up with side pieces which may be of different material and of different color to the neck shoulder and front part of the garment, enabling additional fashioning to shape to be provided as well as enabling pleasing contrasting or blending of colours and/or texture of material to be provided.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a garment of simple construction which can be quickly and accurately made up by semiskilled help by the use of the simple patterns permitted by the cut of the garment.

Various other objects and features of the invention may hereinafter appear from the following specification and accompanying drawings. In the drawings, in which identical numerals indicate identical parts.

Fig. l is a view of the cut out piece of material forming the collar, neck, shoulder and front of my pull over garment with side pieces shown detached.

Fig. 2 is a pictorial view of the garment in position on the wearer.

' Fig. 3 is a pictorial view of the garment showing the neck opening enlarged to permit the wearer to pull the garment over his head.

Referring now to Fig. 1, the piece of material forming the collar, shoulders and front of the garment is indicated generally by the numeral H].

2 This piece of material comprises an upper portion forming the collar !2, one shoulder portion 14, an opposite shoulder portion It and cross over piece 22, and a downwardly extending front portion 28 depending from the shoulder portion M.

A generally triangular opening is formed in the material as indicated at [8 by cutting along the lines 1311, IE, IT.

It is pointed out that while the area of the material at the upper portion of the blank forming both shoulders is identical, the front 20 is formed from the piece of material depending from the shoulder area at one side only, as shown.

Depending from the material forming the shoulder area on the opposite side to the front piece, is the cross over piece 22 which extends downwardly to a distance sufiicient only to fold over the upper chest area as will be later described. As will be seen from Fig, 2 the cross over piece 22 is arranged to lie below the front piece Zil as indicated by the dotted lines in this figure. The top lines H, E3 of the cut out piece of material to each side of the collar portion form a diagonal line extending downwardly over the upper front of the assembled garmentfrom the front of the collar to the level of the opposite arm pit, while the lines I?) and H form the top seam of the shoulders when the cut out material is folded.

While the parts of the garment just referred to may form a unitary piece I may prefer to cut them in the form of two pieces, the division line being indicated at '26. Further, While the sides as well as the front of the garment may be formed from the same piece of material I prefer to obtain side pieces 28, 30 by cutting along the curved lines 32, 34 which provides the front half of the arm holes formed in the sides of the garment, and along the lines 36, 38 which defines the back vertical edge of the side pieces, and along the lines Ml, 29, and 42 which define the front vertical edges of the side pieces. I prefer to form the sides of the garment as separate panels of diiferent coloured material or material of different texture, thus by cutting several layers of cloth of desired colors and/or materials as explained I can obtain the parts required to make up garments in a plurality of combinations of material and color of shoulder and front with sides of the same material and color or of different material or color, and further, by trimming the side pieces or vertical edges of the parts I can more fully shape the garment to the individual who is to be fitted.

In explaining the assembling of the pieces out according to the pattern described it will-be assumed that a garment having side pieces of different coloured material is to be made, and that a unitary piece of material is used.

I prefer to first complete collar I2 by facing it with material in the usual manner, and next the side pieces 28, 39, which were cut from another piece of cloth but to the identical pattern, are sewn along the lines 29, 40, 62' which will constitute the front Vertical side seams of the garment.

The cross over or chest piece 22 is then folded inward, and downward to bring the point 24-to the point 24a which is on the side vertical seam of the opposite side of the front 20 the fold being arranged so that the point 2| lies on point 23 on the side vertical seam opposit lto point 24a. The step described will cause the bottom lin 25 of the cross over piece to lie along the dotted line indicated in Fig, 2; but the cross over piece 22 is not sewn along this bottom line to piece 29 but only connected'to the front 20 by sewing point 2d to 24m, Lines I 1 and I at the sides of the opening EE arethen smoothed out to extend horizontally to form the top'seam of the shoulders. The points 2 3 and 21 are sewn in the positions stated and the free edge 2'l,-of

thefront. of the garment is-sewn-tothe edge 40,

29'. The back of the garment is then completed vinvthe known manner bysewing apiece of materialvalongone edge to-the-bottom-edge; ltct of the collar and top shoulder seams l5, ll, andto The advantage of the garment of my invention 1 is due to the ability of theneck of the garment to open widely when the sides of the collar are pulled apart, this being due to the attachment of the folded over front at two widely spacedpoints only, enabling the garment to give freely However,

when the garment hasbeen-put on, the weight of the'garm'ent and the diagonal arrangement of the upper part of the garment'causes the collar opening to/fi t neatly around the wearers neck. 1

The forming of the garment from a number of separatepieces also aids-in ensuring a well fitted garment which drapes 13 on the wearer.

A further important advantage is that the front of the garment is clear of sewn seams between or hangs becomingthe neck opening and the bottom of the front,

and from one front side-seam tov the opposite front side seam, this facilitates laundering, and especially ironing, the. garment;

The full front piece 29 is then folded over the piece 2 2,

Number case in one piece, but have secured very satisfactory results from the garment made as herein shown. 7

While I have described and shown in the draw ings a preferred embodiment of my invention it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications may be made in the cutting and making of the garment without departing from the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claim.

I claim: I

In apull over garment comprisinga collar'portion surro-unding' a. neck opening, shoulder portions, inner and outer cross over chest portions and a back portion; a fulllength frontportion formed as an. extension of the outer cross over chest portion, a first side panel secured along the whole length ofone of its edges to thewhole length of one vertical edge of the outer cross over chest portion, .a second-side panel secured along the wholelength of one of itsedges to the other vertical edge. of said outer cross over chest portion and to the vertical edge of the inner cross over portion, both said side panels being provided with front part arm holes, the top front of the garment being defined by the upper edges of the inner and outer cross overchest portions each of which run diagonally fromrthe front -ofthe neck opening at" one side downward and across to the vertical seam at the opposite side between the chest portion and side panel and are's'ecured to the garment only at said side seams at about arm pit level leaving the lower, edge of-the inner cross over portion free from the outer cross over portion across the chest betweennsaid vertical seams", tl'i'eback' portion beingjconn'ected' to. the

free e'd'gesofthesi'de panels and back of the sh'o'ulL der: and collar portions. V

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